Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Coming from an occasional observation in Sardinia, this has been an unusual attempt to identify an insect taxon in images of falcon predatory actions in the air and has resulted in the first report of Scarabaeus sp. in the diet of Falco eleonorae. Provided that this is confirmed as a recurrent food choice, Eleonora’s Falcons and elsewhere declining dung beetles would share enough distribution and phenology to form a predator-prey relationship worthy of further investigation.
Source: Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia
DOI: 10.4081/rio.2024.855
Author: Tiziano Londei
Language: English
Topic: Avian ecology and behavior
Subfield: Ecology
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405536763